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Oct
5
answered How to send stderr to stdout with a pipe to another command?
Oct
4
comment Warnings about read-only filesystems while installing a solaris package
Is it possible that you're in a solaris sparse zone configured with an inherited /usr directory? if you are, it will show up like /usr - /usr lofs - no ro,nodevices,nosub in the output of mount -p
Oct
4
comment deny any writing to given app and its children
have you looked at pypi.python.org/pypi/pysandbox? pysandbox may give you the flexibility you want to deny filesystem writes.
Oct
4
revised Correct locking in shell scripts?
added answer for lockrun portion of the question.
Oct
4
answered Correct locking in shell scripts?
Oct
4
comment regarding shared memory behaviour
maybe you're catching the lag at times when the mmap()ed file is flushing to disk. you could try using msync() to for syncs at specific times, and see if you find latency outside of those events. also, depending how big the file is, how much ram you have, you may be paging<->disk periodically.
Oct
4
answered Randomly logging out
Oct
3
awarded  Nice Answer
Oct
2
comment Windows 7/Ubuntu 11 dual boot plus VM?
you used to be able to do this both ways around, at least with Windows XP. The trick was to use a feature for Windows that allowed laptops to save several hardware profiles, for example 1 to use when docked, the other to use when not docked. I used to use VmWare Workstation (several years ago), so that I could either boot windows and access linux in a vm, or boot linux, and access my windows in a vm. I'm not sure if windows 7 supports the multiple hardware profiles, though.
Oct
2
comment Filetype not detected
have you tried removing the if has('autocmd') statement from the .vim/ftedetect/handlebars.vim file, and leaving just the au line?
Oct
2
comment Filetype not detected
To add new filetypes, just put the $filetype.vim file in your .vim/ftplugin/ directory, and then add another au! line to your .vim/filetype.vim file, between the augroup filetypedetect and augroup END lines.
Oct
2
comment Why the value of VSIZE in top is different from the value of VSZ (Virtual set size) in ps?
they look to be calculating RSIZE/rss the same way, but ps is reporting a vsz 2.5x larger than that reported by top. maybe top on IOS doesn't include shared objects in vsize, or something.
Oct
2
answered Filetype not detected
Oct
2
awarded  Editor
Oct
2
revised Mount permissions always blocked
corrected spelling of 'type'
Oct
2
answered Why `.` is displayed by `ls`?
Oct
2
awarded  Commentator
Oct
2
comment What are your favorite command line features or tricks?
i would vote this answer up twice, if I could!
Oct
2
answered Mount permissions always blocked
Oct
1
answered NFS Shared Folders - Is it transitive?